tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88948874203922268992024-03-19T04:39:55.309-07:00Art for Humanityart for humanity...'the art of human rights'
is a non-profit organisation based in Durban, South Africa which specialises in producing fine art print portfolios, exhibitions, billboards and research projects that advocate various human rights issues in South Africa and internationally. The Art for Humanity website serves as an online resource for those interested in human rights, art and social development.Art for Humanityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05456558720062587571noreply@blogger.comBlogger132125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894887420392226899.post-8120033417615272522013-02-12T04:14:00.001-08:002013-02-12T04:14:13.962-08:00<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Described by the New York Times as “a poet and performance
artist whose work was known for its power its political outrage and above all
its sheer, propulsive musicality”, Jayne Cortez has left a chasm in the art
world and the hearts of many. She died of heart failure in her Manhattan home
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Born Sallie Jayne Richardson on an army base in Arizona in
1934, her father a soldier and her mother a secretary. She moved to Los Angeles
at the age of seven and even at that young age she enjoyed listening to her parents’
jazz and Latin recordings. In high school she studied music, drama and art.
After graduating from high school she attended Compton Community College. In
her early years of her artistic career she changed her surname to Cortez, her
grandmother’s maiden name.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Cortez is the author of a collection of poetry books and has
performed her poetry and music on nine recordings. She has presented her work
and philosophies around the globe at various universities, museums and festivals. Her poetry has been translated into 28
languages ‘and her work can be seen in anthologies, journals and magazines such
as Daughters of Africa and Poems for the Millennium. In 1991 she co-founded
Organization of Women Writers of Africa with Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo, of
which she was president of. She was
organizer of "Slave Routes: The Long Memory" (2000) and "Yari
Yari Pamberi: Black Women Writers Dissecting Globalization" (2004), both
international conferences held at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>New
York University. She has also had her stint on the silver screen
appearing in Women in Jazz and Poetry in Motion. She also went behind the lens
and directed <i>Yari Yari: Black Women
Writers and the Future.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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In 1954 she married Ornette Coleman and later divorced him 10 years
later. They have one son, jazz drummer Dernado Coleman. In 1975 she married
sculptor Mel Edwards. Both she and her husband contributed to Art for
Humanity’s, Dialogue Among Civilisation portfolio in 2010. Though she may be
gone she shall forever live through her words.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m pulling away
from availability of weapons & war<br />
to have a dialogue with<br />
chemicals leaking from apples & bananas while<br />
a seascape sings its great sewage song of tomorrow<br />
So back off<br />
It’s not only space debris, iceberg floes & toxic waste in<br />
squid ink of my insomnia<br />
I’m pulling away from the ideology of class & religion to<br />
wiretap water supplies & have a dialogue concerning<br />
sanitation & human dignity<br />
& as colonies disappear to reappear like blank pieces of paper<br />
I scrub my tongue<br />
I rinse my spirit<br />
I dust off my poetic imagination to kiss the sunshine<br />
& send a message to the earth in<br />
the transformative foam of six thousand languages<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">The aim of this artwork is to create an installation of </span></span><span style="font-family: Constantia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 114%;"> </span><span style="font-family: Constantia; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">tiles th</span></span><span style="font-family: Constantia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; text-align: center;">at are simple in line, shape and colour. My work is inspired by Piet Mondrian, he contributed to the De Stijl art movement during the early 1900s. His work consisted of geometric lines (vertical and horizontal) and primary colours, which are colours that created others. The element of line is brought into my work in order to create a continuous mark, as if one is walking in the city and being surrounded by buildings. These lines will continue to my final exhibition, where line will create a feeling of oneness or one piece made from individual pieces.</span></div>
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AFHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750876009991910400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894887420392226899.post-89387624708060336822013-01-14T23:09:00.004-08:002013-01-14T23:09:45.521-08:00<br />
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In the present body of work, I have begun to trace not only the origin, but also the karmic effects of stains on defaced surfaces in urban spaces. By drawing a line between the cause and the effect, i hope to establish the creator power in all who live in a defined, organized and governed urban space .Apparently we are all involved to different dimensions in shaping or influencing the social scape .I believe this influences can occur to a high degree in clustered urban centres like Lagos and Abuja, in Nigeria for example. This has been my focus for this exhibition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-ZA"> <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Constantia;"> </span><span style="font-family: Constantia; font-size: 10pt;">There is a massive amount of human energy on our planet today. For me, it is difficult to ignore the creative power of the individual human .I like to explore how this potent creativity is utilized especially in situations of human relativity, interactions and tolerance.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-ZA"> <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Constantia; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 119%;">philosophy and indeed connote ignorance , especially in a world of multiple opinions, but I do not believe that any one person has the sole right or the freedom to think, and transfer those thoughts into action, neither does any one have the right to be ignorant enough to become freely influenced.</span></div>
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AFHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750876009991910400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894887420392226899.post-26526252551489338452013-01-14T04:37:00.002-08:002013-01-14T04:37:13.891-08:00<br />
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AFHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750876009991910400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894887420392226899.post-92167694353017744912012-10-23T03:00:00.000-07:002012-10-23T03:00:15.813-07:00Poetry Africa 2012 <br />
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international poetry festival, Poetry Africa, is a festival which features some
of the worlds most talented poets brought to Durban by the Centre of Creative
Arts to take part in their week long programme which includes book launches,
workshops, performances and readings. And at the end of that week the festival’s
finale takes place at the Bat Centre. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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festivities took off with the annual SlamJam which pits poet against poet to
see who has the talent to be recognised as SlamJam royalty but this year things
were done a little different, instead of the usual poet against poet, it was country
against country. On the right side we had South Africa (Dashen Naicker, Ewok
and Page) and on the left Sweden (Henry Bowers, Oskar Hanska and Laura Wihlborg).
It was a tight match of verbal exchange but South Africa managed to win, with
Dashen Naicker once again bagging the best individual poet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hour interval the evening programme started with regrets from the hosts, some
of the poets (Saul Williams, Tumi Molekane and Oliver Mtukudzi) had to leave
early due to other commitments. But despite the absence of those poets the
remaining gave a stellar performance with prelude poets Ingonyama, Puseletso
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sense of sombreness in some of the poems recited which juxtaposed well with the
humour and frivolity of other poems, the crowd favourite Henry Bowers’ Ragdoll,
Poppy Seed’s Hoity Toity and Nii Ayikwei Parkes West African Mosquito. Werewere
Liking and Madosini showed us you are never too old to get down and dance
whilst Tumelo Khoza hyponotised with her flute infused piece. Pedro
Espi-Sanchis of Kideo took us back to the days when we were young especially
with his rendition of Miriam Makeba’s classic with Jessica Mbangeni singing
alongside him. Jamaican poet D’bi Young closed the evening off with an electric
poem that got everyone on the edge of their seats. </span></div>
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created to inspire all of humanity with freedom of expression, the quest for
excellence, pride, dignity, and respect for individual rights, reflection and
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<span style="color: #1f497d;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> <a href="http://www.dut.ac.za/sites/default/files/faculty_arts_and_design/afh_september_newsletter_2012.pdf">http://www.dut.ac.za/sites/default/files/faculty_arts_and_design/afh_september_newsletter_2012.pdf</a></span></o:p></span></div>
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AFHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750876009991910400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894887420392226899.post-63897475196790244592012-09-25T03:12:00.000-07:002012-09-25T03:12:37.328-07:00INTERPRET DURBAN<br />
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<span lang="EN-ZA">Interpret Durban is a contest for the
creative mind that runs through the whole of September, the main event is usually
at the end of the month which brings together an award ceremony, exhibition of
some of the works and stellar performances from some of Durban’s musical acts such as Fruit and Veggies and Coals of Juniper. This
year the event will be held on the 29<sup>th</sup> of September at the Bat
Centre with a whopping R160 000 worth of prizes. </span></div>
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as someone approaching Durban with fresh eyes” and the categories are video,
photography and t-shirt design (which is by invite only). Entries do close
today on the 25<sup>th</sup> of September, so if you haven’t entered yet, now
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service to and from the Bat Centre on the night of the main event. The shuttle
will begin the route from 6pm, starting at the KZNSA and making its way to “Cube”
on Innes Rd and after it heads to the Bat Centre where passengers will be
dropped off on the Esplanade and guided through the tunnel under the train
tracks by INTERPRET DURBAN personnel. The shuttle will then go back around to
KZNSA and start its rounds again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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AFHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750876009991910400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894887420392226899.post-47952401780709099912012-09-20T01:59:00.000-07:002012-09-20T02:17:05.695-07:00Commissioner Zulu on heritage, culture and the media<br />
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<span lang="EN-ZA">Professor Nogwaja Shadrack Zulu visited the
Journalism department yesterday for a thought provoking talk on culture,
language and the media. He is part of the Commission for the Promotion and
Protection of the Rights of Cultural Religious and Linguistic Communities and a
lecturer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. </span>In the
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<span lang="EN-ZA">“There are papers that I buy that are
interested in headlines, there’s an act that’s developing, and we are reading
these tabloids with big personalities. Some of the stories about the farm
people who are working in farms that are still oppressed by these farmers,
nobody talks about them, nobody, it doesn’t exist in the media.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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right to privacy and dignity referring to the revealing now defaced painting of
President Jacob Zuma and the current case on the topless pictures of the Dutchess
of Cambridge Kate Middleton. He emphasised the need for a balance in our
democracy and a responsibility to each citizen not to abuse the rights
enshrined in our constitution.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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indigenous languages are facing any form of threat or challenge by virtue of
the first newspaper being written in an African language and the first English newspaper
being written by a native South African and the arrival of John Dube with his
paper, iLanga laseNatal. But he did note the colonisation of South Africa has
played a role in how we view and perceive our language and heritage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to understand that South Africa does not have one culture, instead it is a
diverse country with different heritage, religions, colours and cultures. And not
just in South Africa but Africa as a whole. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It happened as she laid wide awake at night.Thoughts souring in and out her conscience as she starts to tear up.If only her boyfriend loved her enough to tell her the truth about his status ,if only he loved her enough to use protectection</span><br />
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Hiv/Aids has grown to be a fierce academic in the republic of South Africa and if the youth of today fails to be educated enough the future of this beautiful country will be in dire strait.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Statistics of Hiv/Aids are getting fierce, impulsive
comments are being thrown at our youth, policemen are pulling the trigger without
a second thought and corruption in government is ever so fierce. We ought to
fear for the future of this beautiful country.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It all stems from apartheid.
Like the devil in disguise the mind-set of our forefathers still stays etched
within the depths of our psyche. Reasons for so much corruption amongst South
African citizens today stems from 1 thing, poverty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Today’s democracy comes with severe responsibility,
especially with the youth of today. More and more young people are getting hit
with the stigma of Hiv/Aids.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Based on statistics, sample of 32,225 women attending 1,424
antenatal clinics across all nine provinces, the South African Department of
Health study estimates that 30.2% of pregnant women (aged 15-49) were living
with Hiv in 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">South Africa has one of the fastest expanding epidemics in
the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In our real stories gallery (</span><a href="http://www.realstoriesgallery.com),an/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">www.realstoriesgallery.com),an</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
organisation endeavouring to educate society about the Hiv/Aids epidemic that
has instated a partnership programme with Art for Humanity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I spoke to Isabella Malgas, 81, who had a lot to say about
the youth of today and during her time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">‘We couldn’t even kiss our boyfriends without going to
confession first, everything today is tainted including the food’, she said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Art for Humanity initiated the Break the Silence Hiv/Aids print
in 2000 to instil a greater sense of social morality within the consciousness
of our society.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A break the silence artist, Dominic Thorburn expresses the responsibility
of halting the horrific Hiv/Aids pandemic and needs to be communally shouldered
through emphatic, coordinated and unified national intervention.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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AFHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750876009991910400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894887420392226899.post-49831083061001291432012-08-23T23:54:00.000-07:002012-08-23T23:54:08.174-07:00
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The Department of Colored Opportunity<br />
By Nicole Hodnett<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjGJDkkdcG_lAFd9MCU7l_3L3En9aGxt7KQwdV2wLfCUwWFw9nh7fojuvqkSF3ruDcEqwiLDRRo50iAkTP3m6WtoVVx5tagAl4qQU9gAFZZV90-z42uzW2dCaHqQAvCZR5TGlbfNmidLo/s1600/afhlogo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjGJDkkdcG_lAFd9MCU7l_3L3En9aGxt7KQwdV2wLfCUwWFw9nh7fojuvqkSF3ruDcEqwiLDRRo50iAkTP3m6WtoVVx5tagAl4qQU9gAFZZV90-z42uzW2dCaHqQAvCZR5TGlbfNmidLo/s320/afhlogo.jpg" width="162" /></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A man of 16 waits to complete his arithmetic exam for his apprenticeship.
He has a heart of gold and the intelligence that had the potential to exceed boundaries.
He has one thing in mind when completing it,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">‘I am doing this for my family’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">According to South African history, South Africa was
colonized by the English and Dutch in the 17<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> century .English of
the Dutch descendants (known as the Boers and Afrikaners) resulted in the Dutch
establishing the new colonies of Orange Free and Transvaal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">With the enactment of Apartheid laws in 1948, racial
discrimination was institutionalized. Race laws touched every aspect of social life,
including a prohibition of marriage between non-whites and whites, and the
sanctioning of ‘white jobs only’. In 1950, the Population act required that all
South Africans be racially classified into one of four categories, black, white,
Indian and coloured.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">According to South African History, long before the
inception of apartheid ‘Coloured ‘people in South Africa occupied this
precarious position between white and black South Africans. This position was
intensified during Apartheid by the creation of a separate identity, reinforced
by the various apartheid laws that strived to keep racial groups apart. Some of
these laws included the Mixed Marriages act, immorality act and the Group areas
act.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">As a journalist of the arts I get inspired by everything I
witness whether its good or bad. I still take it as an experience and
inspiration for my future articles. My inspiration for choosing to be a
journalist was an inspiration from my parents and everything they went through
to get to where they are today. Apartheid was a true struggle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I spoke to that man that was once 16 years old as he sits in
his home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“If I lived in your age of generation, I would of definitely
went to University, but coloured men were limited with what they wanted to study’,
he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Back in the day opportunities were limited for the person of
colour. Nowadays with Democracy in our grasp, the world is our oyster.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A man of 60 waits at his daughters PhD graduation at the
University of Cape Town .He has a heart of Gold and the intelligence that he
passed down to his children. Even though opportunity was restricted for him
during apartheid he always had this in mind,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">‘I am doing this for my family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">His name is Stanley Hodnett and He is my father. I love you
daddy!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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AFHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750876009991910400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894887420392226899.post-36599497817175177052012-08-23T02:41:00.000-07:002012-08-23T02:58:35.597-07:00<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">
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Alleged Defiance of the Unmoved Miners<o:p></o:p></div>
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By Sphe Masondo<o:p></o:p></div>
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<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/T6tfoldVfis?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Tomorrow a memorial service will be held for more than 46
dead mine workers of Lonmin platinum mine in Rustenburg.<o:p></o:p></div>
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An eyewitnesses
account published in the Sunday Times dated<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>August 19<sup>th</sup> ,2012 highlights how 3000 miners ,who were
defiant and “unmoved” had gathered at the koppie<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>which they had adopted as a gathering area
demanding to see management “we want management to come talk to us ,’ thy
demanded. Therefore the question is how did this demand urn into what has been
labelled as the “bloodiest day in post –apartheid SA”? Which side to take whose
action should be condoned and whose should be condemned? <o:p></o:p></div>
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According to an extract from the Sunday Times, the police
had used all available alternatives before using live ammunition, in a section
that reads “at 4 pm water cannons were used but this didn’t deter most workers.
Then came the tear gas...then the first shots were heard.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On the frontline a large number of miners were walking and
crouching along the pathway and moving from the koppie. This may have been a distraction,
as a mob of workers, armed with rocks and bricks were seen heading towards the
police –crouching low I the bushes like warriors in the middle of a war. It was
then that the police opened fire-rubber bullets at first .then several shots of
live ammunition were heard.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then for barely three
minutes, all hell broke loose as what sounded like firecrackers that
reverberated all around, with police firing their automatic weapons and pistols.
When he dust settled blood soaked bodies lay on the ground”, these were dead
mine workers who only wanted management to speak to them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Looking at these circumstances its beyond obvious that people
were robbed of rights and died fighting against an injustice. AFHs new project
seeks to educate and promote human rights education in South Africa. It stated
in its aims that: “in light of the many social injustices facing South Africa
15 years into our democracy” AFH seeks to embark on an Art and Poetry project
whereby we wish to inspire all south Africans with a new realisation of the
value and significance to us all of this very important document ‘the South
African Bill of Rights.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqQrdW_uJudim9RX0Z37VxIppHCeTJ6nWsRP1vjm4zvCIyXvTVVUqNANUJ68RpyxvX-v4KxKnXGpx5zQ2wGVTy6GUh-IfLuJuJKLm1rRZUD7rpKif-QBKUXAUjx0buGBlCvIfsTlyRpfQ/s1600/afhlogo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqQrdW_uJudim9RX0Z37VxIppHCeTJ6nWsRP1vjm4zvCIyXvTVVUqNANUJ68RpyxvX-v4KxKnXGpx5zQ2wGVTy6GUh-IfLuJuJKLm1rRZUD7rpKif-QBKUXAUjx0buGBlCvIfsTlyRpfQ/s320/afhlogo.jpg" width="162" /></a>Therefore believing that there is a way through art and poetry
that we can unpack the social ills facing our south African society such as
this of Lonmin mine workers who died whilst fighting social and economic
problems which were leaving them in poverty through low salaries, deprivation
which sets a struggle to the future wellbeing of all those the Bill of rights
is meant to protect. South Africa has a young constitutional democracy that
needs not only to be protected at all times but also needs to be continuously
brought to the attention of all South Africans.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The following
observations illustrate the social, cultural and economic threats to our Bill
of Rights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>South Africans comprise a
divided society in terms of racial relations, economically between extreme
poverty on the one hand and extreme wealth on the other. AFH bridges Human
Rights and the Arts advocacy and educational objectives by making visible the
ethical values as contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
through the visual arts and the creative articulation as in poetry. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Therefore without choosing sides lets tackle these issues
head with all possible avenues if the politicians and society weak, let’s make
art and poetry be the platform that we can use to communicate these flaws in order
to make sure that our Bill of Rights does not become undermined by those in
power.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A Biblical Chapter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I remember the story from Exodus. Where people in Egypt were
enslaved, babies were killed and the cost of human dignity meant nothing to
those in power.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">According to an article by Ariela Pelaia, it happened at the
end of the biblical book of Genesis. Joseph brings his family to Egypt. Over
the following centuries, the descendants of Joseph’s family (the Hebrews)
became so numerous that when a new king comes into power he fears what might
happen if the Hebrew decides to rise against the Egyptians. He decides that the
best way is to enslave them (exodus 1).According to tradition, these enslaved Hebrew
people are the ancestors of the modern day Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">According to The Abolition project, slavery refers to a
condition in which individuals are owned by others, who control where they live,
work and do in their daily lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">To be a slave is to be owned by another person. A slave is a
human being classed as property and who is forced to work for nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Although slavery nowadays is illegal in every country, it
still exists according to BBC-ethics guide. There are likely more slaves now
than there were victims of the Atlantic slave trade.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The last country to abolish slavery was the African state of
Mauritania, where a 1981 presidential decree abolished the practice; however,
criminal laws were passed to enforce the ban.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">According to South African history, many South Africans are
the descendants of slaves brought to the Cape Colony from 1653 until 1822.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It is a popular misconception that slavery in South Africa
was mild compared to America and the European colonies in the Far East. This
was not so, and punishments meted out could be very harsh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Universal declaration of Human rights state all human
beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. These are endowed with
reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of
brotherhood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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A Permanent Stain<br />
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By Nicole Hodnett<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEianAYmVgtM9p8mvYByl-tnoHWzP2YJxdsR7j_FmLkvYdTW0BA8FZ_jwQjG9vzI3pev3QlYHvPP0mD4fYfEsQ-JRF3MhFatdFV5nyeIQzafB0-s_RaRIvycHKXed69dnazgZR4QrcrKWs4/s1600/afhlogo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEianAYmVgtM9p8mvYByl-tnoHWzP2YJxdsR7j_FmLkvYdTW0BA8FZ_jwQjG9vzI3pev3QlYHvPP0mD4fYfEsQ-JRF3MhFatdFV5nyeIQzafB0-s_RaRIvycHKXed69dnazgZR4QrcrKWs4/s320/afhlogo.jpg" width="162" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Deep
within the depths of our human psyche, apartheid still stays etched within us.
No matter how much we strive to look pass our differences; there is some narrow
person that stays stuck back in that horrid time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Apartheid
was a system of legal racial separation which dominated the Republic of South
Africa from 1948 until 1993.According to Wise Geek, mechanisms of apartheid were
set in way before 1948, and South Africa continues to deal with the repercussions
.Under Apartheid various races were separated into different regions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">According
to an article by Heidi Burgess, stereotypes are generalizations or assumptions
that people make about the characteristics of all members of a group based on
an image(often wrong)about what<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>people
in that group are like.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
other day I had an interesting conversation with my 81 year old grandmother
about the stereotypes back in the day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMT6I0pMvFU9vOb3YYrH_QRp17b8MuPKgHDoArwzQ1Z_Hu5y4noWr3vBMknYYpZoNcpn4EnZ1KeF2gONK2cK61E720JD7VXl0pT16tnecE5wecp_xt27EGpKjIkialdPvlmgO8GGHK49A/s1600/constitution.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMT6I0pMvFU9vOb3YYrH_QRp17b8MuPKgHDoArwzQ1Z_Hu5y4noWr3vBMknYYpZoNcpn4EnZ1KeF2gONK2cK61E720JD7VXl0pT16tnecE5wecp_xt27EGpKjIkialdPvlmgO8GGHK49A/s1600/constitution.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">‘The old
government was preferable to the new one as I feel the rife corruption in the
midst of today’s people”, she said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Will the
after effects of Apartheid ever leave us? It seems like we will forever have to
hide, run away from the fact that God made us in His own beautiful image and likeness.
If the “white” man was superior, God would have made the entire world “white”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">After
1994 when South Africa turned Democratic, people had the freedom to explore the
barrier of mixing with other race groups resulting in interracial relationships
and marriages.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">According
to an article by Nadia Kareem, it’s also important to examine your motives for
entering such a union.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">According
to a dictionary meaning, the meaning of tainted is to affect with decay or
spoil.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I work
for a Human Rights organisation. Art for Humanity stands for all things democratic;
we touch base on what affects us in this ‘ever tainted” society.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I think
of Kim Berman in her Art in the Dialogue project and how she shows a
representation of what racism is all about. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">We break
silences on what couldn’t be broken back in the old days of Apartheid when our
forefathers would get locked up in their fight for freedom of expression.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It started in
the first grade when my teacher called me to the front of the class for news
week.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">"I would
cringe".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My name is
Nicole Bernadette Hodnett and I am quiet. Many establish that through my
inability to communicate at times. Whenever people get together I do my best to
escape the situation, it used to be very overwhelming for me. I always stood in
the shadows of my outspoken sisters. I am the youngest of five and today I
describe myself as an outspoken and very irritating person at the best of
times. My grade one teacher often describes me as a late bloomer in life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It is believed
by humankind that we are put on this Earth for a purpose and our purpose alone
we shall serve. When we were born our parents looked at us through fresh eyes
unaware of the future that awaits us being it good or murderous.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It all started
in that legendary Garden of Eden where Adam given strict instructions by God
not to touch the forbidden fruit, still went ahead defiant and ate that apple
and influencing Eve to taste it too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It symbolises
that yesterday, today and tomorrow will be forever tainted by influence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Back in the day
apartheid separated the different races and put us according to category. We
got arrested when associated with a colour higher than us.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">These days we
meant to be free, have the ability to allow the apartheid era to leave us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Last year I
attended my oldest sister’s graduation. I felt proud of her and planned to
focus all my holiday bonding with such a great mind like her. She always taught
to see out my box and explore the world with an open mind.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">An aunt of mine,
my sister Godmother came to my father and started making all kinds of
accusations about my relationship. I was told to leave him immediately or I will
embarrass my family.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Is this all
through colour? Is our South Africa still so caught up on racism?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It’s been two
years on and we still very much together. It pains me that I could never have
an open relationship with my mother when it comes to the person I have chosen
to be within my years of study I was taught to be non-biased when it comes to
judging a situation. I thank God I don’t see colour when it comes to other
people. God made us in his own image and likeness, once we appreciate the
beauty of humanity is the day apartheid will truly leave us.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nelson Mandela</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Through the
conquering of my curves in life I aspire to be a journalist that inspires and
changes the lives of people with my words. I thank my mother for teaching me
the values of being careful in this world and my aunt helping me to develop a
thick skin when it comes to criticism. I am glamorous through my drive to be
different and that’s the best thing in life a person could ever be.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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I look up to Nelson Mandela for his fight against the struggles of Apartheid and showing people that we have the potential as a rainbow nation.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> I feel it the duty of our ancestors not to pass the ills of the past to the generation where we are supposed to be born free.</o:p></span></div>
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AFHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750876009991910400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894887420392226899.post-25180615957405480232012-08-14T01:50:00.001-07:002012-08-14T01:50:48.155-07:00
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The View <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">By Sphe Masondo and Nicole Hodnett<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nabeelah Shiek </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I have always been shot down for realising thoughts I felt
strongly about from the brain my mother so carefully formed. If there were
subjects I felt strongly about I was often taught to speak out, open my mouth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Back in high school I was always branded as the quiet person
who preferred keeping thoughts to herself. This is the main reason two teachers
often tried getting the best of me since grade 7 till matric.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In journalism we are entitled to explore avenues that make
us comfortable with Freedom of expression. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">As a woman I always feel our entitlement to speak out when
we feel dissatisfaction about a specific topic that affects society.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Women in society contribute to humanity and the increase of humankind,
without women as bearers to humanity; we will not have leaders, presidents or teachers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nomvelo Bhengu</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Art for Humanity gives platforms to matters necessary to society,
art is life, and without art in the world life is lifeless.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We celebrate international women’s day that has been
observed since the early 1900s.A time of great expansion and turbulence in the
industrialized world that saw booming population growth and the rise of radical
ideologies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A woman has given birth to leaders, presidents and C.E.Os.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Nowadays women and
black women in particular are still economically disadvantaged and make up a
disproportionate section of the unemployed and tend to occupy more of the lower
paid jobs as domestic and farm labourers”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chelsea Pietrse</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Nasiphi and Sasa</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The written scenario may have changed a bit lately and
recently we celebrated women’s day her in South Africa and we can be proud of
women such as Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma who chairs the African Union a true symbol
of change but is what being written in section 9 of the constitution really
taking place everywhere in our society.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Section 9 on equality
reads “The state may not unfairly discriminate directly or indirectly against
anyone on one or more grounds, including race, gender, sex, pregnancy, marital
status, ethnic or social origin, colour, sexual orientation, age, disability,
religion, conscience, belief, culture, language and birth." The prohibition
of discrimination on the grounds of gender, sex, pregnancy and marital status
is clearly intended to protect women.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The grounds
"sex", which is a biological feature, and "gender", a
social artefact, is both included - perhaps unnecessarily. But the result is
that this section leaves no doubt that no unfair discrimination based on any
feature of being a woman will be tolerated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I spoke to a women who is an inspiration to hear her view on
women’s day and its importance today on which she highlight a few<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>important facts such as that “women’s day is
“incredibly important” besides being just a national day where we look at the
achievements of the past but it’s should also and is a day of reflection “reflect
on millions of other women<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>who’s
realities are unchanged due to abuse, sexual assault and still remain victims
of hate crimes”, so the day should really be a day for a reality check on the
social issues facing women.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Her name is Rene Smith who works as Head of Department in
journalism at Durban University of Technology. She gave her view on what the
values of womanhood mean to her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“We ought to reflect on other women and realities that are
unchanged in the world. We shouldn’t only focus on 1 day, the 9th of August is
commemorated of what women achieved”, she said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This view is supported by the many other people interviewed
who had this to say about women’s day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A first year student, Chelsea Pietrse gave her view on what
the value of women means to her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“It shows appreciation of women and I’m glad it’s being
taken seriously then previously and it helps us as young ladies to appreciate
the role of those who suffered for our freedom as women, she said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> "</span></o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It should be
celebrated as it helps us especially young black girls feel that as we grow we
are also appreciated because we are seeing our mothers and other women being
appreciated", said Nomvelo bhengu<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Nasiphi and Sasa, Durban University of Technology students
stated” it’s good that women are celebrated, it shows that we haven’t forgotten
about the sacrifices of women of the past to name some, Helen Joseph and
Lillian Ngoyi”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Women play a significant role in society and the presence
of women’s month and women’s day promotes the role that women play in society”,
says Nabeelah Shiek, a second year journalism student.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
AFHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750876009991910400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894887420392226899.post-44969005960071425352012-08-08T04:24:00.003-07:002012-08-08T04:24:46.191-07:00<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A Proud Endorser<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">by Sphe Masondo<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW5-q5n8J9vRAeObXoEJdZZ3LoboOSwTQTrBAQywqXosSJp37_8QIj3h3CsCSBZpBchWUiL4edqOPM-6GdARPL_e2RiDwYR9iVCDjnlLfQbnIAdCM_wPLfD7KPXWX6znvp2zCACqTRBsM/s1600/afhlogo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW5-q5n8J9vRAeObXoEJdZZ3LoboOSwTQTrBAQywqXosSJp37_8QIj3h3CsCSBZpBchWUiL4edqOPM-6GdARPL_e2RiDwYR9iVCDjnlLfQbnIAdCM_wPLfD7KPXWX6znvp2zCACqTRBsM/s320/afhlogo.jpg" width="162" /></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Art for humanity as an organisation that deals with artistic
freedom and artistic expression through art and advocates for human rights
issues in South Africa and internationally celebrates and salutes leaders and
endorsers such as Kofi Annan who serve with interests of human rights.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Kofi Annan’s support and endorsement is noted greatly on the
Universal Declaration of human Rights International Print Portfolio where Annan
and Dalai Lama applaud the work done by artists in an attempt to promote Human
rights. I quote Kofi Annan when he writes “we pay tribute to the minds of those
who conceived of these human rights and to the memory of those who died for
them” therefore he carries on by writing,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I applaud this effort to bring all "The Articles of The
Declaration to life in graphic form". For this anniversary is a time for all of
us who enjoy human rights to imagine life without them-and how hard we would
fight to retain them. It is a time for those who are still denied their human
rights to dream again of asserting them, and to know that their dream is our
dream-the dream of human rights for all.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Human Rights play an important role in society in
any form that it’s practiced section 16 0f the South African Constitution
states that:<b> </b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">freedom of
artistic creativity</span></u></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I highlight<b> C-</b>freedom
of artistic creativity, because today I celebrate on of the elders who support
the work done by Art for Humanity,</span> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Kofi Annan, former Secretary-General of the United Nations and Nobel
Peace Prize laureate<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>AFHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750876009991910400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894887420392226899.post-44971147124876601782012-08-07T01:44:00.001-07:002012-08-07T01:44:08.484-07:00<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Aged 33<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">By Nicole Hodnett<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In light of Women’s Day coming up I met up with one of South
Africa’s most inspiring women who took time out of her busy schedule to speak
to me about her life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Her name is Sandra Malgas and she is 48 years old and serves
as an Insurance Administrator .She has travelled 12 countries in her lifetime
and describes what the value of a women mean to her,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgljUPgoNDwvPmMo0MUdkSFkCLlzssFTQ8LROS2OR9jMusWv02jCRpH21VUhkvzf0ZEv1spP4hwml_8pmGjuO9VFdAKCubcqDrxQnYSF5JnMV4vMeTa_88zQveotX6YgGkP9OEgM2G0p4E/s1600/Copy+of+poetrylogo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgljUPgoNDwvPmMo0MUdkSFkCLlzssFTQ8LROS2OR9jMusWv02jCRpH21VUhkvzf0ZEv1spP4hwml_8pmGjuO9VFdAKCubcqDrxQnYSF5JnMV4vMeTa_88zQveotX6YgGkP9OEgM2G0p4E/s320/Copy+of+poetrylogo.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Women are the creators next to God and they are the
backbone of humanity”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">She started travelling in August 1997.And at the age of 33
she has the honour of visiting the Holy land.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“I see this as an honour as 33 is the age Jesus walked those
exact same lands,’ she said. Her dream in life was to sit at the side of the pool,
sipping cocktails and distressing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">She is a member of couples for Christ which is a family
based ministry in the Catholic Church .Their aim is by trying to renew the face
of the earth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">She believes that Catholics in the Media are often portrayed
in a negative life and even when something good does come out, people try
tainting it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Her next destinations were Jerusalem and Galilee. She
describes it as a beautiful vision in history and real life. She felt goose
bumps the minute the plane landed on what is described as Holy soil.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“This is the place where the passion was relived and it felt
very emotional doing the way of the cross, also known as (via-dolorosa) leading
up to Calvary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">She describes it as a very highly religious Arab, Christian
and Muslim with 1% Christian.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Her next destination was Egypt where she describes women who
still dress in their cultural clothing especially in the Muslim community.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“The pyramids are what fascinated me the most, it was too much
to comprehend”, she said. She describes Egypt as the ancient old wonder of the
world at the centre of modernisation and holds so much sentiment and attraction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Back in biblical times we remember the story of Moses and
the freeing of people from Egypt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">As a Catholic woman she describes the Jordan River, baptism
of Jesus, as a very emotional experience especially when she place her feet in
it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“It is symbolised as the cleansing of original sin “she
said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In light of women’s month we honour ordinary women that do
extraordinary things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">There will be a follow up on the rest of her travels, stay
tuned!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>AFHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750876009991910400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894887420392226899.post-5827827252467625252012-08-06T05:58:00.000-07:002012-08-06T05:58:19.221-07:00<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“You must not lose faith in humanity”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh52GhX64e0vf7Uuc88_M2HcaPFIzTs_LNiG_ZdfOUJ80yNLd5pdci_V26XzUIY4rz6_xZQTg03LtI4pN17kz6NC6UpRM4Dr00KDzY0j41vsbykNCR-baMKaSKOPC05SmMbJ5WXgJy1LZg/s1600/afhlogo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh52GhX64e0vf7Uuc88_M2HcaPFIzTs_LNiG_ZdfOUJ80yNLd5pdci_V26XzUIY4rz6_xZQTg03LtI4pN17kz6NC6UpRM4Dr00KDzY0j41vsbykNCR-baMKaSKOPC05SmMbJ5WXgJy1LZg/s320/afhlogo.jpg" width="162" /></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">By Sphe Masondo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">These are the words of Mahatma Gandhi in which he continues
by adding that “humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty,
the ocean does not become dirty”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The beginning of women’s month this year started with a conference
held at Durban University of Technology called the “Roots to Fruits” conference
at which activists and organisations gathered and engaged on way and issues
dealing with non-violence. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In this month the relevance of the words of Mahatma
Ghandi and humanity are of great importance as we need not to give up on our
humanity and those who still practice violence towards others whether physical
or verbal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mahatma Gandhi’s
ideas are praised for not being ideal for a certain group but rather universal and the universal application of his ideas and principles can find
ways of dealing with conflicts that lead to violence and abuse that we see and
fight against women and child abuse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: small/16px arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: bold small/16px arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi</em><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: small/16px arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Art for Humanity supports and gives platforms for artists
and poets to support such initiatives and is in ties with organisations such as
(ICON) international Centre of Non-Violence and the Gandhi Development Trust in
carrying the vision even beyond this month of August in saying that “non-violence
doesn’t mean we won’t have conflict, but we can have understanding”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">May the universal application of ideas and concepts of
Mahatma Gandhi help us in dealing with some of humanities current ills and may
we not loose faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />AFHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750876009991910400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894887420392226899.post-11264281248024700112012-08-06T02:09:00.002-07:002012-08-06T02:09:25.185-07:00<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">An Incestuous Reality<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">By Nicole Hodnett<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong>Ebina TATSUO,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Yutaka HIROSE, Artist Assistant, Japan<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />'ear'<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />59.5cm X 42cm</strong></em></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Little patter of feet scuttle across the way, she
has light brown hair and mesmerising matching brown eyes. She has lipstick in
her hand and scribbles across the wall. Tumultuous joy seized the eyes of her
mother as she stretched out her arms to welcome her loving little daughter and
laughter etched across the room as she sees the message,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“I love you mommy”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Child abuse is the physical, sexual or emotional
mistreatment of a child or children. According to News24, one child is raped in
South Africa every 3 minutes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">According to a report compiled by Solidarity Helping
Hand in 2009, there were about 60 cases of child rape in South Africa, every day;
more than 88% of child rapes were never reported.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">According to parent24, children are being raped,
murdered and abused by those they should be able to trust the most, their
families.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The crime statistics are those reported to the police,
and don’t express the reality of the violence which occurs in thousands of households
across South Africa each day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">According to an article written by Scott Dunlop,
there are weekly stories of family murders, brutal rapes of children, kids
being assaulted and killed, often by whom they trust the most, their families.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In latest reported the Baby Jayden case renews
concern over rickets and child abuse allegations. According to The Guardian,
concern is mounting about dangerously low levels of vitamin D in pregnant women
and two hospital failures to identify rickets after the death of Jayden Wray
who suffered from this disease.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">They were accused of killing their son and then
robbed of their new-born daughter. The couple were blamed for shaking their
rickets stricken baby to death, relive their horrific ordeal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Jayda Wray was taken by social workers from her mother,
Chana, now 19, the minute she was born in October 2010 and at just 17months,
only just returned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Children are suffering from a hidden epidemic of
child abuse and neglect. Every year 3.3 million reports of child abuse are made
in the United States involving 6 million children. The United States have the
worst record in the industrialized nation, losing five children everyday due to
abuse related deaths.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Art for Humanity serves platform to the Women for
Children campaign where poets and artists break silences on topic affecting
open society today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It is a fact that children are a blessing from the
highest power. They are the mothers, fathers, Presidents and leaders of tomorrow,
children are the future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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has light brown hair and mesmerising matching brown eyes. She has lipstick in
her hand and scribbles across the wall. Anger seized the eyes of her mother as
she stretched out her arms to reach for her belt as her loving little daughter
waited in response, she beat her child to death before she looked at the
message that said,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Confidence of Eve<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">By Nicole Hodnett<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">When we wake up in the morning knowing all will go well,
great or even fantastic. Confidence is the greatest asset we can possess that
has the ability to move mountains; Confidence is strength from within the core of
our mind, body and soul.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In early biblical times we remember Adam and Eve from the Garden
of Eden. According to a dictionary reference, The Garden of Eden was defined as
a biblical earthly paradise inhabited by the first man and women.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It was at the precise moment when Eve offered Adam a bite of
the forbidden fruit that showed women as fruit bearers till the end of time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">According to an article written by Rene Wade, confidence is everything.
If you don’t have unshakable confidence, then you’ll probably never live your dreams.
A lack of confidence means you don’t offer much value as a woman. Confidence is
knowing that you have high worth, as well as knowing you have value to add. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Confidence is having the strength and courage to say no in
situations of torrid difficulty. It is also standing up for what is right when
all forces are against you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Art for Humanity gives platforms through artists and poets
to express topics such as these.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Representation of The Garden of Eden</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">When we think of the poorest communities in Africa, we think
of the Aids epidemic and lack of education. In a place where Education is not
widely accessible and the culture of the male dominance still prevails .An
unfair playground of the opposite sexes, where aids becomes a big game.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">According to Article Alley, women of today are not women of yesterday,
they are not just mothers but executives ,Prime Ministers and Presidents of
nations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">A<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Colourful Mix<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">By Nicole Hodnett<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">When we think of inter-racial we automatically think of it
as leftovers of the apartheid epidemic. In order for the people of society to
be truly defined as democratic, we need to see each other as people, not colour.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">According to the Urban Dictionary, inter-racial relates to
marriage, relationships or dating between races. In the 2000 census, there were
1.6 million inter-racial marriages in America. This number has undoubtedly
increased.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">According to African History, The Prohibition of Mixed
marriages act no 55 of 1949; forbid marriages between whites and other races.
Between 1946 and the enactment of this law, only 75 mixed marriages had been
recorded, compared with 28000 white marriages.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Esther Saunders, a 20 year old student from the University
of Natal gave her thoughts on what inter-racial relationships mean to her.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Inter-racial relationships definitely can be a beautiful
thing provided that the 2 people don’t see each other for the colour they are,
but as the person they love”, she said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">An artist of the Dialogue Project,Amadou Kane- sy ,describes
that Human relation geography has been in existence for a very long time. This
has happened naturally and in line with the initial natural design of a desired
process of a better human evolution.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Break the Silence initiative gives artists and poets a
unique opportunity to use their talents to advocate these significant messages
to the community<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Gabisile Nkosi,an artist based in KwaZulu Natal, believes an
African proverb that says.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">‘If you want to hide something from a black man, write it in
black and white”. To convey this message, Nkosi said,” It is better to do a
colourful visual, rather than to use text”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This is a great representation of what the great Mandela
have been fighting for more than a decade. If we truly see each other for the
people we are and not the colours we are, the earth will be blessed and
prosperous.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Links, tendencies and connections<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">By Nicole Hodnett<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">When we think of art we think of Picasso, the great Michael
Angelo or the enchanting smile of Mona Lisa. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: x-small/16px arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">400 × 507 - </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: bold x-small/16px arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Vincent van Gogh's</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: x-small/16px arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Self-Portrait</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">According to an article written by Brian Rice, art causes
people to look a little closer and to observe social issues occurring so
frequently in today’s society, the freedom to express and assume freely through
art.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">When we observe the artists who produce the art,
eccentricities are often evident within them. We remember the great Vincent van
Gogh who lived a short, deeply tormented life. According to Shelly Essak, he
executed a number of self-portraits and had a brief turbulent friendship and
veered in and out of madness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">He shot himself on July 27<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>, 1890, but didn’t die
until 2 days later. He died selling one painting in his lifetime.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In today’s society artists express their thoughts on
subjects that affect and infect mankind. Art for Humanity is a platform that
gives artists and poets the freedom to break silences on what affects them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">She is a Dialogue artist and South African born. Kim Berman
was born in Johannesburg in 1981.She completed her Bachelor of Fine arts at the
University of Witwatersrand. She lectures at the Fine Arts Department at the University
of Johannesburg and is the Director of The Artist Proof Studio in Newtown
Johannesburg.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">According to an article written by Helen South, television
usually portrays artists sitting around in coffee shops having deep and meaningful
conversations, swanning about interesting clothes at art galleries or having
dramatic nervous breakdowns connected to drugs and alcohol. Most of the time
they will be where they need to be and that’s in their studio making art.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQQeQ__YUJbcazpE8a5UMDCS4SlaU_Q3qeUmwC0DjCbTuc3jOjyWLo4M8Lcj911J784N2P-Kl4CQkgAV5ub4bC-gGgvbNqpMEel8WPiblzhyphenhyphenuEVYQeAtJCXt3StsufxBjmSReat4_5HhA/s1600/afhlogo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQQeQ__YUJbcazpE8a5UMDCS4SlaU_Q3qeUmwC0DjCbTuc3jOjyWLo4M8Lcj911J784N2P-Kl4CQkgAV5ub4bC-gGgvbNqpMEel8WPiblzhyphenhyphenuEVYQeAtJCXt3StsufxBjmSReat4_5HhA/s320/afhlogo.jpg" width="162" /></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">According to Mad Science, European scientists are claiming
that artistic tendencies may be linked to the same genetic mutation that causes
schizophrenia and paranoia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">According to the constitution of South Africa we are all
entitled to express our thoughts freely and fairly. In light of today’s society
artists expressions of thought have become deeply controversial and often misconstrued.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">When it comes to freedom of expression whether it was yesterday,
today or tomorrow, an artist and the constitution will always be connected.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The crux of todays influence</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">By Nicole
Hodnett<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdXzNNto-fYJE3GYQR3t6yCoSKm7F-tce_BH67lxiqvkpwAf7dGsoADLLk2ZtLjQynqCin3N8aWEALZJ5Y25v5xk4fkxMU0Oh7ieiF9bOZGqErNfAm7fVqWe4QLHkj5parnAJ5topZJ1w/s1600/Childhood-Neglect-Trauma-And-Adult-Self-Esteem-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdXzNNto-fYJE3GYQR3t6yCoSKm7F-tce_BH67lxiqvkpwAf7dGsoADLLk2ZtLjQynqCin3N8aWEALZJ5Y25v5xk4fkxMU0Oh7ieiF9bOZGqErNfAm7fVqWe4QLHkj5parnAJ5topZJ1w/s320/Childhood-Neglect-Trauma-And-Adult-Self-Esteem-1.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In today’s
world everything we see, do or hear goes according to influence,
generalisations or stereotype.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">According to
an article written by Julia.T Wood, of the many influences on how we view men and
women, media are the most persuasive and one of the most powerful.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">When we
watch television or movies we see scantily clad ladies strutting around ,showing
their bodies’ parts off to the world in tiny pieces of clothing .<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Diane Victor "Weighing and Wanting"</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Do men
automatically view women as objects when its plastered on television or is this just the way the world works?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It is
unfortunate that a piece of clothing can lure a sexual predator or give wrong
ideas to the opposite sex. We are the way we carry ourselves and even though it
is not our fault, influence will continue the stubbornness to play fair in the
lives of men or women.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A dialogue
artist, Amadou Kan-sy explains the difference of colour complexion, and with
different accent and tones of life and communication.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">According to
feminist issues in prostitution, radical feminism opposed prostitution on the
grounds that it degrades women and furthers the power and politics of the male gender.
Feminists seek to be supportive of sex workers while deploring the work itself
as inherently wrong. They do not admit to taking an ethical position in
contemporary moral terms. According to the Old Testament the women’s behaviour was limited in ancient times.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Clifford Zulu (Artist) and Sithandazile Dube (Poet) representing Zimbabwe in the Art for Humanity, “Dialogue Among Civilizations” Print Portfolio 2010.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">According to
Science Daily, past studies have shown that people perform poorly in situations
when they being stereotyped .This was according to Associate Professor of Psychology,
Michael Inzlicht who led the study.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Results show
that prejudice and stereotyping have lingering adverse impacts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">According to
association for Consumer research, a very large body of research on non-verbal
communication has sprung up during the past twenty five years when it comes to
clothing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Another
major focus of study on clothing treated it as an extension of the
psychological state of its user.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">According to
an article written by Breezysands, women in the media are portrayed as having
an ideal body type. As early as toddlerhood, girls are groomed to believe that they
must achieve an unrealistic shape in order to look radiant.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Clothes
being marketed today have such slogans on them such as "hot chick" or "flirty baby"
that objectify little girls the same as beauty pageants.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This happens
when girls as young as 3 years old wear makeup with wigs, false teeth, fake
eyelashes and excessive amounts of makeup. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Can we
really be okay with each other in this world or do we
still see each other as alien that automatically have to judge one another and
act on impulse when we see something that sticks out from normal human vision.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The women
for children project gives light to topics like these and gives poets the
chance to express themselves through art and poetry on social issues that
affect them and today’s society.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>AFHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750876009991910400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894887420392226899.post-23269647290695830822012-07-24T04:30:00.003-07:002012-07-24T04:30:24.488-07:00<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Artists for
Humanity<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">By Nicole
Hodnett<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Abuse can be
of a physical, emotional or verbal nature. It is intimidation on another individual,
yearning for control and intrusion into another’s psyche. The Bill of rights
states our human entitlement to equal protection.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">According to
Psychology today emotional abuse is anything that intentionally hurts the
feelings of another person.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The 16 days
of activism for no violence against women and children is an international
campaign that takes place every year from November 25<sup>th</sup> to December 10<sup>th</sup>.This
period also includes Universal Children’s day and World Aids day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Art for Humanity Director,Jan Jordaan gave his view on the abuse of women.</span></span></div>
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</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">"Women have the right to freely
express themselves and a right to say no. If women do not speak out they will
be treated like objects”, he said.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">While many
women across the world fight for better wages, women in Saudi Arabia can’t even
take a paid job without the permission of a male guardian. According to Emaj
magazine the norms of Saudi Arabia constitute the Kingdoms official laws and regulations.
The laws are based on religious decrees .Religious police control every aspect
of a women’s life in Saudi Arabia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">According to
BBC News, a prominent Saudi television presenter made international headlines
when she permitted to newspapers to print horrific images she had allegedly
sustained from her husband back in 2004.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Through an expression of art, the Women for
Children project was created in light of any unspoken topic. Art for Humanity
has provided platforms to Freedom of expression.</span></span></div>
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<br />AFHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750876009991910400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8894887420392226899.post-75139427220449932872012-07-23T05:35:00.000-07:002012-07-23T05:35:56.852-07:00<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">An expressed mind-set<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">By Nicole Hodnett<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">When we think of discrimination we think of a state of mind.
This mind-set has the disposition of looking down on someone through race,
gender, colour or religion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPCVC8_XHyxcwzkz5Hqvw9zGmK3sO-wEV8cudaDzKR0h8p_2adJXoQ8ANGP2RMpshtWa4-isucKmj0WWVt93jEXrduVss_prtocxk5gaYPrLPNjyOY114J6quTLNGKk5kbUn7YrQnVdd8/s1600/Copy+of+poetrylogo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPCVC8_XHyxcwzkz5Hqvw9zGmK3sO-wEV8cudaDzKR0h8p_2adJXoQ8ANGP2RMpshtWa4-isucKmj0WWVt93jEXrduVss_prtocxk5gaYPrLPNjyOY114J6quTLNGKk5kbUn7YrQnVdd8/s200/Copy+of+poetrylogo.jpg" width="199" /></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">According to the Economic times British MP, John Stuart Mill
was the first person in Parliament to call for women’s rights to vote in 1869.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">According to UN NEWS CENTRE, almost every country in the
world still has laws that discriminate against women and promises to remedy
this have not been kept.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Discrimination is never a mental state.it is solely conduct.
A person must act on a decision before it can be found illegally discriminating.
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">During the years of the Apartheid struggle the fight for
gender equality took a back seat .According to My Fundi the Constitution of today’s
democracy outlaws discrimination in any form. South Africans are simultaneously
tackling the deep seated legacies of racism and patriarchy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">According to African History, it has been 50 years since the
federation of South African women organized a mass demonstration against the
imposition of pass laws on women in South Africa<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Art for Humanity has initiated the Women for Children project.
Through an expression of art it brings light to an unspoken topic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">They are the mothers, daughters and sisters to our society.
There will be follow up articles leading up to Women’s day. Stay Tuned!<o:p></o:p></span></div>AFHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750876009991910400noreply@blogger.com0